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iCloud Standard Guide

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iCloud Standard Guide

Overview of this book

iCloud is a cloud storage and cloud computing service from Apple Inc. iCloud is a hub in a multi-devices environment, that allows your iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches, and Macs sync with each other and always have the same content. The service allows users to store data, such as music files, on remote computer servers that can be downloaded to multiple devices such as iOS-based devices, and personal computers running OS X or Microsoft Windows. This practical guide provides easy, step-by-step guidance to using the numerous features offered by iCloud, for first time users You will be guided through everything that you need to know about using iCloud on multiple platforms, as well as how to use it on a Windows PC. Learn about what iCloud can offer you with this practical guide, and what makes it better than other cloud services. It will take you through all of the iCloud services available, and help you to manage your contents easily across devices. You will also learn how to use Mail, Contacts, Calendar, and other iCloud services on Mac, PC, iOS devices or in the web browser. This book will also let you explore more on using iPhone and iTunes with iCloud, sync all contents without any hassle, and even back them up with iCloud. If you want to take full advantage of iCloud, then this is the right book for you.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
iCloud Standard Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
3
Working with Mail, Contacts, and Calendar
4
Collaborate with iMessage, Notes, and Reminders
Index

About the Reviewers

Daniel Mühlbachler became interested in Computer Science shortly after starting high school, where he was later developing web applications as part of the scholarship program for outstanding pupils.

Besides having a profound knowledge of web development, such as PHP, HTML, and CSS, he has also worked with a variety of other programming languages, such as Java, Groovy/Grails, Objective-C, MATLAB, and C, and is skilled in Linux server administration. For his Bachelor's thesis at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria, he worked on aerosol satellite data processing for mobile visualization, where he also got familiar with MongoDB and processing big amounts of data.

He enjoys solving challenging problems and is always keen to work with new technologies, especially with Big Data, functional programming, optimization, and NoSQL database-related ones.

More detailed information about his experience and contact details can be found at www.muehlbachler.org and www.linkedin.com/in/danielmuehlbachler.

Sergio Martínez-Losa Del Rincón lives in Spain. He is a software engineer and a serial entrepreneur. He has always liked to write technical documents as well as programming in several languages. Nowadays, he focuses all his efforts on game development and mobile technologies such as iPhone or Android. He likes cloud technologies, especially iCloud, because it presents a new way to explore and share your data; he also likes web development with .NET and Java.

In 2012, with the help of two other friends, he started an indie game studio called DoubleEqual (http://www.doubleequal.com), where they had a little success with some of their games. He always looks forward to learn about new technologies; he likes app development for iOS and Android as well as games with cocos2d-x and SDL.